At about 12pm on March 29th MRPD officers took reports on four cases of vandalism/theft from vehicles parked in the Thomas Stone Elementary School parking lot. During their investigation they reviewed the school's security camera footage. The footage showed that a black SUV drove into the parking lot at about 11:30am and 38 seconds later it is seen fleeing the scene. During that 38 seconds someone in the SUV broke into the four vehicles and stole property from inside three of them. The video was not detailed enough to help identify the SUV or the suspects.
There is a new spam campaign in circulation using the Boston Marathon bombings that occurred on April 15, 2013 as a lure. Users are sent an e-mail encouraging them to a watch a video of the explosion. When the user clicks on the enclosed link to watch the video malware is installed on the user’s computer. The following URL patterns have been found in these e-mails: http://[IP-address]/boston.html http://[IP-address]/news.html When the user clicks on one of the links the Kehlios worm is installed on the user’s system which has the capacity to send spam; carry out Distributed Denial of Service Attacks; and steal online currency such as bitcoins. Most major anti-virus vendors have signatures for detecting this malware so users should keep their antivirus programs up-to-date. In addition to the Boston Marathon spam campaign, a West, Texas plant explosion spam campaign has also sprung up. This spam campaign uses similar exploitation techniques as the Boston Marathon spam campaign p
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